#Bird and Nature Tags:

[freshthoughts2020]

[blessedscavengers]

blessed be the scavengers

I have stickers of this print up on my etsy shop for anyone who’s interested

terfs fuck off

made in 2024

[pansy-placebo]

Have any of you ever heard of the hummingbird moths we get in Britain?

So, I thought I saw a hummingbird last year. It was much bigger than a bug could be, I thought, and it hovered around flowers and looked like it had feathers.

I got pretty close but it was never still enough to see clearly. Then, when I told my parents they said "oh! it was probably a moth!" and I was baffled for a long time. Like, how could a moth look like and act so much like a hummingbird?

Until I googled "hummingbirds in the UK" and this fucker comes up:

Everyone, meet the hummingbird hawk-moth; one of the weirdest and coolest cases of convergent evolution on this planet.

This is the kinda thing I'd see in fiction and go "oooh cool, bug hummingbird! Wish we had those on earth!" But we do. We really do have them on earth!! Isn't that nuts?!?!?

[nepeteaa]

american kestrel

tell me your favorite bird of prey :-)

[mspaintbirdies]

Toco Toucan

(Rhamphastos Toco)

[kelogsloops]

painting two lovebirds #brbchasingdreams

🎵 lofty - #221, molson

prints | tutorials

[spinus-pinus]

Red-tailed Hawk and California Ground Squirrel Buteo jamaicensis and Otospermophilus beecheyi

6/11/2023 Irvine Regional Park, California

We got to watch this recently-fledged (and banded!) red-tail trying to figure out how to eat this young ground squirrel. I'm unsure if it caught the squirrel itself, or if it was given by a parent - but it certainly seemed confused about what to do with it!

[demadogs]

some of you need to hate ai way more than you currently do

[chirrups]

omg!!! Dog au

I always head canoned jimmy to be a golden retriever and joel to be a tiny feral dogo

but they are clearly not here and I wonder what breed you drew them as and why you choose them to be that in the au

golden retriever was actually one of the breeds that i was considering in the brainstorming stages (along with some terrier breeds) but i eventually settled on the good old beagle for jimmy.

to me personally, beagle fits because they and their hound cousins are just a little more plucky and scrappy than "himbo-soft" golden retrievers are stereotyped as. jimmy is brash and foolhearted to an hilarious degree so i wanted to give him a more "goofy but still a hunting dog" feeling if that makes any sense at all.

also beagles are known for baying and i think it could function as a fun parallel symbol to the canary stuff he has going on.

and lastly, scott is a sheltie (and martyn and tango are medium-small sized breeds as well), so i wanted jimmy to fit in those size ranges and dynamics. he also just doesn't read big or small dog to me so medium size he is!

and good ole joel is a jack russel because that breed is terror on tiny legs. joel has a truly potent amount of small dog energy with the ferocity and gaul to back it up, so he gets the jack russ because those guys are as if a rabid animal and also 200 live grenades was packed into 10-pounds worth of dog.

it was a debate on whether to give grian, bdubs, or joel the jack russel terrier as they are all (just a little) napoleon-complex personalities to me but jack russel fit joel best design-wise and i ended up finding breeds that work with the other two better

[birds-and-the-birds]

Yellow-bellied sapsucker from early this year, never saw this one again for some reason. can't blame him i'd hate it too if my name was sapsucker

[werewolf-artfriend]

doing it right?

[filurig]

birdified my blorbos

[sunnydayaoe]

Woof drew some vultures :] [first image is referenced last three are not so don't mind the stiff poses X]] ]

[crapbirdphotography]

The jirrie jirrie photos weren't bad enough???!?!?

Get my chooks playing dead idiot

And some bonus out of focus babies

[takeapeck]

so apparently I now have kestrels nesting here???? I didn't know they were this floofy

[hemlocksgrove]

Groovy

Art from 2020 this is based on. Fairly pleased with how much I've grown between these : ]